We are having a lot of problems getting our drones to fetch pictures once we have taken them. We have one student who is able to get his to do it, and we have replicated his code and they are still not fetching. Is anyone else have problems with this or have some tricks that we are missing.

When you try to fetch a picture from a drone over bluetooth, it can take 10 seconds per picture. Sometimes it may take a minute even. If you stop the program or turn off the drone in the meantime, it appears to not be working. In our new drone tutorial, you should see some more information and a progress bar as the picture is being transferred. Please give that a try and let us know how it goes.

You could try upgrading the firmware of your drones using Parrot's Free Flight app. We are able to use the Mambo and successfully transfer pictures. You can even write separate programs to take pictures and fetch pictures.

In order to debug the problem, try taking the picture using the Free flight App. See if you can fetch it by writing a program on Tynker. Or vice versa.